Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim speaks for the first time about attempted hit on his life

When a gun was pointed at Sam Abdulrahim as he drove out of Fawkner Cemetery he had no idea he was about to get “pumped with bullets”.

Underworld identity Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim has spoken for the first time about being shot in an ambush attack at Fawkner in June, saying he thought a friend must have been playing a joke when he saw a gun pointed at him.

“When the car pulled up next to me I thought it was one of my mates,” Abdulrahim told Sam Newman’s You Can’t be Serious podcast.

“Then I looked up and I just seen something pointed at me and I thought ‘surely this is a joke’.”

“Then I just remember getting pumped with bullets.”

He was later told he died twice on the way to hospital.

Sam "The Punisher" Abdulramin has broken his silence about being shot in an ambush attack.

“My mate gave me CPR the first time, the second time the ambos,” he said.

Abdulrahim said he didn’t feel pain when the bullets hit him. “It’s more just the shock … I remember just taking off and driving thinking what the f**ks going on,” he said.

“It felt just like copping punches to the ribs.”

Abdulrahim sped away from his assailants and sought refuge at the Fawkner police station.

But he said he was aiming to make it to the nearby hospital.

“I remember my mate telling me in the car, ‘You’re bleeding badly, you’ve got to pull over’,” he said.

“I didn’t realise how badly I was bleeding.”

Abdulrahim lost consciousness and said when he came to, “I remember police standing on top of me and just holding my chest and my mate gave me CPR first.”

Abdulrahim, a professional boxer, said he may not have survived were it not for being in peak physical fitness.

“I actually fought maybe two or three weeks before that (so) I was extremely fit,” he said.

Abdulrahim was riddled with bullets.

But he also credits Essendon supplements scandal figure Shane Charter for providing him with “legal supplements” which have aided his remarkable recovery.

“Thank God for Shane Charter, he helped me out heaps and got my body up and going,” he said.

Abdulrahim said doctors decided to leave one of the bullets in his kidney as a “safer” option to remove it.

He said he also has little feeling in the right side of his body.

“I’ve still got no feeling in my right side, pretty much the right side of my body I struggle,” he said.

“They reckon it will (come back).”

Sam Abdulrahim (centre) broke his silence during an appearance on Sam Newman's popular podcast. Picture: Supplied

Abdulrahim has made a strong recovery and is even back in the gym.

Abdulrahim left the Mongols outlaw bikie gang in the weeks before he was shot, but said the attempt on his life had nothing to do with his former gang mates.

In September, 18-year-old Yasir Al Qassim, of Epping, was charged with attempted murder over his alleged role in the shooting.

Two suspects are thought to have fled the country. Abdulrahim said: “Their day will come … legally of course.”

Abdulrahim, a former Mongol, said the shooting had nothing to do with his former gang mates.

“A lot of people take the bikie world the wrong way. I’ve been a bikie and it’s not as bad as people make it out to be,” he said.

“I wouldn’t recommend it.

“I’ll never join (a bikie gang) again.”